When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target.

If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

Let's go invent tomorrow...

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.